My plan services every one of the twelve (12) key destination in Scarborough identified by the City planners [including the Rouge Valley Centenary Hospital, as well as The Scarborough Hospital General Campus, and The Scarborough Hospital Birchmount
Campus)] – The latest city plans do not – My plan includes an east/west LRT along Ellesmere Road between a new rapid transit station at the intersection of Kingston Road/Highway #2 and Sheppard
Avenue East (with connections to the Durham Region), UTSC, Rouge Valley Centenary Hospital, the new Scarborough Centre Subway Station, STC, and the proposed GO/SmartTrack Station at Kennedy and Ellesmere

With my plan there is actually
no need for SmartTrack - My plan finally completes the connection between the proposed McCowan Road Subway and the Sheppard Avenue Subway in Scarborough – SmarterTracks includes provision for a future High-capacity Rapid Transit Line (HCRT) between Pickering/Ajax
and Scarborough (possibly a mono-rail or other form of elevated RT), in place of the currently proposed BRT (Express bus line) - My plan services everything efficiently and effectively without SmartTrack, and uses the minimum number of differing modes of transit
with the least number of transfers possible – SmarterTracks is a long term plan – If the City rushes into their plan without knowing what their long term plan is, they will incur huge and unnecessary costs down the road

- Two major corridors along Markham Road and along Lawrence Avenue, both ripe for new development

Now, the City will tell you that they plan to
address and service all of these key destinations eventually, but; when, at what cost, and how will it fit in with the current proposal – As it is now, even if expedited, the earliest anything new in the City’s current proposal will be ready for
operation and use and is at least ten years from now – Connection of the remaining six destinations is likely to be decades further down the road

SMARTERTRACKS HIGHLIGHTS

Eliminates SmartTrack

Finally completes
the connection between the McCowan Road (Line 2 Extension to Scarborough) and Sheppard Avenue Subways in Scarborough

Includes rapid transit
along Markham Road and Lawrence Avenue which covers two corridors ripe for new development

Includes a new Elevated HCRT Line between Scarborough and Pickering/Ajax

If not planned for now; future developments could box them
in and limit options – For example; land acquisitions could be too small, stations could be oriented incorrectly to accommodate future needs, retrofit costs would be higher, tunnels might not be deep enough to accommodate future stations, e.t.c. …..

See the second draft of Phase VI of my ten (10) phase proposal for public transit in Scarborough and the surrounding area here at www.SmarterTracks.com